The forest department has deployed 64 temporary fire watchers and 69 anti-poaching watchers to preventforest fireinPollachiforest division in theAnaimalai Tiger Reserve(ATR).
ATR officials said they were creating fire lines for a length of 250km in the four forest ranges of Pollachi, Valparai, Monombolly and Ulandi in the division as well to curb the extent of fire. According to them, plans are also afoot to buy two off-road vehicles to transport the materials required to put out the fire in the reserve forest area.
Ganesan said the Forest Survey of India, an organization under the Union Environment and forest ministry, was closely monitoring incidents of forest fire across the country with the help of ISRO satellite.